מוּת mut

Hebrew word for “to die” · Strong’s H4191 · used 840 times in 699 verses

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Meaning

1) to die, kill, have one executed;

How it is translated

Glosses given for mut in context, with how often each is used:

• will die 188
• died 160
• will be put to death 58
• certainly 50
• dead 41
• put to death 40
• die 34
• killed 28
• had died 27
• kill 19
• has died 17
• will put to death 17

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 21 (12), Leviticus 20 (11), Ezekiel 18 (11), Numbers 35 (10), 1 Kings 2 (10), Jeremiah 38 (9), Genesis 5 (8), Genesis 23 (8), 1 Chronicles 1 (8), Ezekiel 33 (8)

Forms

• וימת 134
• מת 70
• ימות 66
• מות 50
• יומת 49
• תמות 34
• ומת 31
• המת 24
• למות 23
• להמית 17

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mut more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 60
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 56
• קָבַר qavar “to bury” 37
• שָׁם sham “there” 52
• חָיָה chayah “to live” 39
• אִם im “if” 54
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 44
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 48
• אָב av “father” 53
• חַי chay “alive” 37
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 33
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 46

Key verses

The verses using mut that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 18:25 — That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee:…
• Exodus 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry…
• Deuteronomy 32:39 — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
• 2 Samuel 13:28 — Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear…
• 1 Kings 21:13 — And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the…
• Isaiah 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and…
• Isaiah 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth…
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
• Isaiah 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
• Ezekiel 33:11 — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye…
• Habakkuk 1:12 — Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.